Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 81

“ What we were so afraid of has arrived” - after reflection, not too mature, but, in any case, long-lasting (which partly justifies me), I came to the conclusion that retrospective reviews of the events that happened over the past week (this is at best case; at worst - in the last two or three weeks) - not what my soul longs for. Remembering on Monday about a story that dates back to last Monday is absolutely not an inspiring activity. Therefore, with an effort of will, we turn Sevod into a daily publication - homeopathic doses of news every day from Monday to Friday. Even in my activities there must be at least minimal meaning.

On August 9, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registered the order of the Minister of Communications Leonid Reiman #130 dated July 25, 2000 “On the procedure for introducing a system of technical means to ensure operational investigative activities on telephone, mobile and wireless communication networks and public personal radio calls.” The order transfers SORM from the category of nightmarish prospects to the category of nightmarish reality. Judging by the text of the order, Leonid Reiman was in such a hurry to sign it that he did not delve too deeply into its contents; in any case, the order contradicts several articles of the law “On Operational-Investigative Activities”, as well as the Constitution of the Russian Federation, requiring telecom operators to install technical equipment (at the expense of the operators, of course, which contradicts Article 19 of the said law) and giving investigative authorities the opportunity to carry out uncontrolled interception of subscriber traffic, without reporting which subscriber is being intercepted, and without presenting decisions on the basis of which this interception is carried out. Order #130 does not offer any methods to control investigative activities, to guarantee the inviolability of the secrecy of communications for citizens who are not listed as suspects, but are subscribers of the same telecom operator as the suspect, or even to guarantee the presence of at least any suspect at all. Since the Ministry of Justice meekly registered this monstrous document, one can only assume that the specialists from this department lost their brains at the time of signing it. In such situations, lawsuits from citizens and groups of citizens remain perhaps the only form of counteraction to the violation of civil rights. A sample statement of claim to the Supreme Court to declare order #130 illegal was published in the Moscow Libertarium.